Only seven of Dickinson's poems were published during her lifetime, and those appeared without attribution. After her death at age 56, her sister found hundreds of hidden poems among Emily's effects.

These “Tortured Poets” are actually related. Taylor Swift is allegedly related to famed American poet Emily Dickinson, according to genealogy company Ancestry. The company claimed, per a new ...

‘Emily Dickinson Face to Face’ By Martha Dickinson Bianchi Foreword by Anthony Madrid McNally Editions, 112 pages This memoir, by Emily Dickinson’s niece — first published in 1932, and out of print ...

When the first volume of Dickinson's poetry was published, posthumously, in 1890, it enjoyed enormous popularity, and Higginson--who found this success "curious" and confessed that "even at this ...

This slim volume, originally published in 1932, spans the first two decades of Bianchi’s life, which were also the last two of Emily Dickinson’s.

Despite her solitude, Emily Dickinson tended deep bonds with others by writing hundreds of letters. There are lessons in that ...

Thomas Wentworth Higginson Few events in American literary history have been more curious than the sudden rise of Emily Dickinson into a posthumous ...

In the poet Susan Howe’s study, entitled simply “My Emily Dickinson” (New Directions, 160 pages, $14.95), this sense of ownership sounds loud and clear. But the book, first published in 1985 and now ...